Biography

Jon Bloom is an Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker with broad experience as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor. With almost five decades in the motion picture industry, Bloom is a renowned specialist in entertainment marketing.

A multi award-winning filmmaker, Jon Bloom counts among his kudos six Emmy nominations, a Clio Award plus six Clio nominations, numerous Hollywood Reporter Key Art Trailer Awards and many film festival honors including an Academy Award nomination as producer/director of the live-action short "Overnight Sensation," based upon the Somerset Maugham short story "The Colonel's Lady" and starring Robert Loggia, Louise Fletcher and Shari Belafonte. In addition to the Oscar nomination, the film won first place awards at the Houston, Aspen and American Film Festivals and is available at the Apple iTunes music store on the net.

A Six-term Governor at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Bloom also is Chair of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. Earlier, Bloom was elected by the AMPAS Board to serve as an Academy Officer. Additionally, he has created and produced for the Academy its annual theatrical trailer promoting the Oscar telecast several times and created many special montages and tributes for the Academy Awards ceremony, as well as for the Emmys, SAG Awards and other event telecasts.

His production company BloomFilm, founded in 1987, provides the entertainment industry with audio/visual marketing materials for promotion and advertising. It specializes in creative development and production of theatrical trailers and teaser trailers for movie theaters, television and radio spots for broadcast, special concept shooting, main title sequences, special graphics, documentaries, music videos, montages and product reels for special sales purposes. Please visit BloomFilm.com

BloomFilm continues to build upon Bloom's long term reputation as a top trailer-maker, compiling an impressive list of feature campaigns, including the hits Dances With Wolves, Sleeping With The Enemy, Far And Away, The Fast and The Furious, Chocolat, Flirting With Disaster, and Sling Blade, as well as Music Of The Heart, Mansfield Park, Runaway Bride, Prince Of Egypt, Diabolique, Wild America, Uncle Buck, The River Wild, Mountains Of The Moon, The Abyss, Say Anything, Working Girl, Bright Lights, Big City, Moon Over Parador, Murder In The First, Final Analysis, Toys, The Santa Clause, Sneakers and Chicago.

With his impressive credentials as a director, Bloom enjoys a solid reputation for his expertise in special shooting; from live-action shoots with major stars to table-top cinematography, special effects, computer graphics and trick photography. Jon has directed many top performers including Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, Darryl Hannah, Dudley Moore, Joseph Bologna, Danny Glover, James Garner, Mary Tyler Moore, and Tom Hanks.

Jon Bloom's early work experience includes stints as an assistant director to Robert Wise and Robert Altman, and an assistant editor to Francis Ford Coppola on Godfather II. His early years in motion picture advertising encompass his time as a principal and founder of both Seiniger/Bloom Productions and Intralink, and as a producer of trailers and director of behind-the-scenes documentaries for Kaleidoscope Films. During this period, his work included campaigns for such hit films as Return Of The Jedi, About Last Night, E.T., An American Tail, Throw Momma From The Train, Broadcast News, The Last Emperor, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Verdict, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Missing, The Morning After, Bladerunner, Shogun, 10 and Victor/Victoria.
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Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Short Films and Feature Animation Branch) [2000-]